Comments on: What’s going on with the F-35?https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-going-on-with-the-f-35/
Canada's national current affairs and news magazine since 1905Tue, 01 May 2018 07:41:54 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: Thwimhttps://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-going-on-with-the-f-35/#comment-1032225
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:22:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-1032225That they’re revisiting it is good. That the reason they’re revisiting it is because of the costs alone.. not so much.

If the planes cost 40 billion dollars, but were the only one that met the actual requirements for Canadian service for the next 20 years or so, I’d be willing to accept that. Wouldn’t be terribly happy about it, but that’s the way it goes.

On the other hand, if they only cost a billion dollars but were wildly inappropriate for actually defending Canadian airspace, I wouldn’t be on board with that at all.

I agree that these planes should be rejected, at least until some sort of process is used to properly define what the role of our air-force is expected to be in the future and whether these are the planes that can meet that, but cost alone isn’t the reason to do it.

]]>By: Transcanadahttps://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-going-on-with-the-f-35/#comment-1032223
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:13:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-10322231. Some of the missions touted for this aircraft are inappropriate. Drones would work well on patrol missions in the north, and along our borders.

2. Why are we buying stealth aircraft at a time when sensor technology is improving to the point where F35s may not be so stealthy?

The entire F35 controversy shows Canadians are not excited about spending taxpayers money so extravagantly and wastefully.

]]>By: Pickngrinhttps://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-going-on-with-the-f-35/#comment-1032221
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:05:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-1032221Why we are even looking at these expensive planes is a mystery to me….. this government has demonstrated again and again an uncanny gift for flying by the seat of it’s pants . Planes? We don’t need no stinking planes
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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:26:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-1032219Clearly, the CPC is with the Taliban…they are not for the armed forces…

Puahahahaha~!

]]>By: Carlo Sta. Romanahttps://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/whats-going-on-with-the-f-35/#comment-1032217
Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:19:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-1032217The CF-18s we have serve our purposes well, and upgraded versions can be a good interim solution until the F-35s matures. The problem really with going with F-35s now is that they’re untested, first-gen with all the headaches that implies. If we wait a while, buy cheaper and still capable planes for our fleet, we can re-visit F-35s even 5-10 years down the road for far less what it’d cost now.
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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:55:00 +0000http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=324979#comment-1032215I wonder if there is an off the rack plane we could buy and wait to see how plane technology develops. Surely drones, or something else, are the future so we don’t actually need bespoke F-35s for next 30 or 40 yrs.
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